> This is exactly the sort of dumb reactionary politics that I don’t want in my life Hey, that's what I thought when I read your comment! What about the fact

> This is exactly the sort of dumb reactionary politics that I don’t want in my life Hey, that's what I thought when I read your comment! What about the fact that the treatment of women and slaves is almost certainly significantly toned down from what we know to be the reality? Also there was almost certainly way more gay sex going on among any number of historical personages. Commodus (Gladiator's main villain) in particular was said to have "defil[ed] every part of his body in dealings with persons of either sex." Where is your outrage at this lack of accurate representation? The implication here is that it's really your own baggage that ruins the immersion for you. You suggest that you can't watch a movie now without cataloguing and mourning the places where a character was more likely in your opinion to be white, male and/or straight. This is not something anyone can help you with. White actors have dominated in Hollywood since the beginning, and I don't remember anybody complaining that Mickey Rooney's character in Breakfast at Tiffany's ruined the immersion. Or that literally all of the ethnic Asian characters in the Manchurian Candidate were played by white actors.